more on IP: Australian Government releases content filtering survey in time for Philadelphia trial

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dennis Allison <allison () shasta Stanford EDU>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:35:06 -0800 (PST)
To: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: Re: IP: Australian Government releases content filtering survey in
time for Philadelphia trial

Dave --

I've not yet read the Australian report which, these nits aside, may well be
contain helpful information.  I just wanted to point out that even though
Nathan
says that it does not take any moral or ethical stance, it does.  In the
quotes
Nathan provided one can see the vocabulary and mindset of the censor: a
"determinded and informed attacker", a "safe" Internet, "undesirable
content",
and so forth are not the words of an unbiased observer.  The choice of
vocabulary concerns me in much the same way that I find the use of "ethnic
cleansing" by new commentators offensive.

 -dra
   

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